1．Ludwig van Beethoven 1
2．How Brain Research Got Started&Dr.Colin Blakemore 16
3．The Middle Eastern Bazaar 28
4．Hiroshima—the"Liveliest"City in Japan&Jacques Danvoir 42
5．Cashing in on the Ocean—the New Manganese Klondike&Stuart Harris 59
6．Speech on Hitler's Invasion of the U.S.S.R&Winston S.Churchill 74
7．Blackmail&Arthur Hailey 92
8．The Age of Miracle Chips 110
9．Mark Twain—Mirror of America&Noel Grove 127
10．The Trial That Rocked the World&John Scopes 147
11．But What's a Dictionary For?&Bergen Evans 178
12．Britannia Rues the Waves&Andrew Neil 193
13．Argentia Bay&Herman Wouk 211
14．No Signposts in the Sea&V.Sackville-West 248
15．1776&Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards 266
16．The Ballad of Reading Gaol&Oscar Wilde 307
Appendix Ⅰ Paraphrase 324
Appendix Ⅱ Word-formation 329
Appendix Ⅲ Figures of Speech 344